Thomas Jefferson nejznámější citáty
Thomas Jefferson: Citáty o lidech
„Historie tím, že lidi zpravuje o minulosti, umožňuje jim soudit přítomnost.“
Zdroj: [Václav, Rameš, Slovník pro historiky a návštěvníky archivů, Praha, Libri, 2005, 80-7277-175-2, Slovo úvodem, 7]
Originál: [(en) We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with inherent and inalienable Rights; that among these, are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness; that to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed; that whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the people to alter or abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles, and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. ]
Zdroj: United States Declaration of Independence http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/United_States_Declaration_of_Independence
Source: Deklarace nezávislosti Spojených států amerických http://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deklarace_nez%C3%A1vislosti_Spojen%C3%BDch_st%C3%A1t%C5%AF_americk%C3%BDch#Text_Deklarace, 4. červenmce 1776
Thomas Jefferson: Citáty o životě
Zdroj: DUKE, David Moje probuzení. 1. vyd. v českém jazyce. Praha : Kontingent Press, 2009. ISBN 978-80-254-4167-1.
Thomas Jefferson citáty a výroky
„Neexistuje pravda, které bych se bál nebo kterou bych si přál ukrýt před světem.“
Zdroj: BROWNE, Anthony. Úprk rozumu : politická korektnost a smrt veřejné rozpravy v moderní Británii. 1. vyd. v českém jazyce. Praha : Dokořán, 2009. 157 s (PNK ; sv. 3) ISBN 978-80-7363-240-3. str. 20
Thomas Jefferson: Citáty anglicky
“Widespread poverty and concentrated wealth cannot long endure side by side in a democracy”
Attributed to Jefferson in speeches by FDR http://teachingamericanhistory.org/library/document/campaign-address/ and JFK, https://www.jfklibrary.org/archives/other-resources/john-f-kennedy-speeches/pittsburgh-pa-19470603 but actually a quote about Jefferson by Charles A. Beard in 1936. https://www.monticello.org/site/research-and-collections/widespread-poverty-and-concentrated-wealth-spurious-quotation
Misattributed
1800s, First Inaugural Address (1801)
1770s, A Summary View of the Rights of British America (1774)
Notes on Religion (October 1776), published in The Works of Thomas Jefferson in Twelve Volumes http://oll.libertyfund.org/ToC/0054.php, Federal Edition, Paul Leicester Ford, ed., New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1904, Vol. 2 http://oll.libertyfund.org/Texts/Jefferson0136/Works/0054-02_Bk.pdf, p. 266
1770s
We gratefully acknowledge, as signal instances of the Divine favour towards us, that his Providence would not permit us to be called into this severe controversy, until we were grown up to our present strength, had been previously exercised in warlike operation, and possessed of the means of defending ourselves. With hearts fortified with these animating reflections, we most solemnly, before God and the world, declare that, exerting the utmost energy of those powers, which our beneficent Creator hath graciously bestowed upon us, the arms we have been compelled by our enemies to assume, we will, in defiance of every hazard, with unabating firmness and perseverence, employ for the preservation of our liberties; being with one mind resolved to die freemen rather than to live slaves.
Declaration of the Causes and Necessity of Taking Up Arms (1775); Jefferson composed the first draft of this document, but the final work was done by John Dickinson, working with his original draft. Full text online http://www.nationalcenter.org/1775DeclarationofArms.html
1770s